On the heels of Blondie’s “Parallel Lines 30th Anniversary Tour,” which begins June 5 in Baltimore, Capital/EMI is releasing a special CD/DVD edition of the classic music disc with bonus tracks and videos not previously released.

Parallel Lines has sold more than 20 million copies around the world since its 1978 debut and topped off at #6 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and included the legendary single, “Heart of Glass.” It will be reissued for sale June 24.

The CD/DVD release will add four bonus audio tracks, three music videos and a previously unreleased TV performance from the BBC’s “Top Of The Pops” to the album’s original tracklist, as well as a booklet containing the original album photo session.

Tracks:

CD

1. Hanging On The Telephone
2. One Way Or Another
3. Picture This
4. Fade Away And Radiate
5. Pretty Baby
6. I Know But I Don’t Know
7. 11:59
8. Will Anything Happen?
9. Sunday Girl
10. Heart Of Glass
11. I’m Gonna Love You Too
12. Just Go Away

Bonus tracks:

13. Heart Of Glass – [7″ single version]
14. Sunday Girl – [French version]
15. Fade Away And Radiate [108 BPM Remix]
16. Hanging On The Telephone [Nosebleed Handbag Remix]

DVD
1. Picture This – [promo video]
2. Hanging On The Telephone – [promo video]
3. Heart Of Glass – [promo video]
4. Sunday Girl – [BBC TV, “Top Of The Pops”] – previously unreleased

Blondie – “Parallel Lines 30th Anniversary Tour” (confirmed dates)

June

Thursday 6/5/08 Baltimore, MD Ramshead
Friday 6/6/08 Englewood, NJ Bergen Performing Arts
Sunday 6/8/08 Jackson NJ Great Adventure
Tuesday 6/10/08 Kingston, NY Broadway Theatre
Thursday 6/12/08 Ontario, CAN Casino Rama
Friday 6/13/08 Ontario, CAN Casino Rama
Saturday 6/14/08 Niagara Falls, NY Seneca Events Center
Tuesday 6/17/08 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatre
Wednesday 6/18/08 Farmingville, NY Brookhaven
Friday 6/20/08 Hyannis, MA Cape Cod Melody
Saturday 6/21/08 Cohasset, MA South Shore Music Circus
Sunday 6/22/08 New York, NY Nokia Theatre
Tuesday 6/24/08 Louisville, KY Kentucky Center
Thursday 6/26/08 Chester, WV Mountaineer Racetrack
Friday 6/27/08 Chicago, IL Lincoln Park Zoo
Saturday 6/28/08 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest

July

Thursday 7/3/08 Tel Aviv, Israel Raanana Amphitheatre
Saturday 7/5/08 Guilford, UK Guilfest
Sunday 7/6/08 Bristol, UK Academy
Tuesday 7/8/08 St. Petersburg, Russia Oktyabrski
Wednesday 7/9/08 Moscow, Russia B1
Thursday 7/10/08 Helsinki, Finland House Of Culture
Saturday 7/12/08 Belgium, Brussels Rock Zottegem
Sunday 7/13/08 Zurich, Switzerland Xtra Limmitshaus
Tuesday 7/15/08 Luxembourg Den Atelier
Wednesday 7/16/08 Amsterdam, Netherlands Paradiso
Friday 7/18/08 Barcelona, Spain Summercase Festival
Saturday 7/19/08 Madrid, Spain Summercase Festival
Sunday 7/20/08 Suffolk, UK Latitude Festival
Tuesday 7/22/08 Liverpool, UK Liverpool Pops
Thursday 7/24/08 Galway, Ireland Ireland Arts Festival
Friday 7/25/08 Dublin, Ireland Vicar Street
Saturday 7/26/08 Glasgow, Scotland Academy
Monday 7/28/08 London, UK Motorshow Music Festival
Thursday 7/31/08 Sweden Storsjoyran Festival

August
Friday 8/1/08 Norway Storas Festival
Saturday 8/2/08 Oslo, Norway Rockerfeller

About The Author

John Guilfoil is the editor-in-chief of Blast: Boston's Online Magazine and the Blast Magazine Network. He can be reached at [email protected]. Tweet @johnguilfoil.

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